One good thing about being a woman is we haven't too many examples yet of what a genius looks like. It could be me.

It's nice to go into your doom. It's so liberating.

There was not an awareness of pop culture in the household. There was a lot of respect for working hard, and for intellectual and professional achievement.

I spend most of my time in my head. You can always work out solutions and satisfactions there. Maybe you can't actually bring them about, but there's usually a pleasant pillow of time between imagining you can, and realizing you cannot.

Writing fiction is a good way to inhabit other minds, if not other lives.

I'm in a serious monogamous relationship, and I don't want to keep having different boyfriends, and I have this instead - with men and women. It's better. Instead of having sex, we have art.

Sometimes you do have people who are great at curating; sometimes you have people curating who don't know what they're do.